Re: Newbie just starting on charting with PHP - and seeking advice on options/approaches

["Greg Cocks" <gcocks(at)stoller(dot)com>]

Issac,

Thanks... sorry for the delay in replying...

I like this application... very neat... 

I think though that I might be stretching the non-technical users (who are often the senior staff) to get Flash installed and the security opened up, etc...

I have been looking at JpGraph... and Google's API... and I tried PHPlot off SourceForge, true 'roll your own' as someone said...

I like "free" but the canned functionality of JpGraph at a cost of a less than two hours of my charge-out time to the project is tempting - especially as the pro version has Windrose capabilities on the fly (which we would use), something hard to find even in a non-web setting!

Hmmm... so many choices, and as you know once I have started investing  in one solution I will be lax to switch to another!    :-)


Regards,
GREG COCKS
Gcocks|at|stoller.com
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Isaac Vetter [mailto:ivetter(at)math(dot)purdue(dot)edu] 
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 3:08 PM
To: Greg Cocks
Cc: PostgreSQL List - Novice
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Newbie just starting on charting with PHP - and seeking advice on options/approaches

Hi Greg;

This is really a php/web thing and not a postgresql/db thing.


I recently started using Yahoo's Charts Control project for some web 
data visualization.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/charts/index.html

It uses Flash which has it's upside (no image manipulation, PHP/GD 
integration, simpler) and its downside (requires users to have Flash).

I haven't looked at Mike's suggestion, but considering that both Yahoo 
and Google offer liberally sourced libraries for data visualization on 
the web, is the for-pay product really superior?

Isaac Vetter

Greg Cocks wrote:
> *Hello*,
> 
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> I am looking at options to chart dynamic data held in the PostgreSQL 
> database pushed out to the web 'pages' via PHP, time series data in a 
> scientific setting such as groundwater levels from a transducer...
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> *I was seeking any input anyone might care to offer...*
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> _Initial searching found these_:
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>     * http://www.maani.us/charts/index.php (with newbie tutorial I found
>       at http://www.developer.com/lang/php/article.php/3714046 )
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>     * http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/chart/chart-manual.php
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>     * http://www.amcharts.com/
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>     * http://naku.dohcrew.com/libchart/pages/introduction/
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>     * http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ (simple example explained here
>       à http://james.cridland.net/code/google-chart.html )
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>     * Or any other thoughts??
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> 
> (I guess I could maybe pull together US$100 for licence if needed...)
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> I don't need anything fancy, as the technical data analysis will be done 
> inside the network with ODBC, etc... this is more for the less-technical 
> web page user to see the data graphically... (much like they can see it 
> spatially via MapServer...)
> 
>  
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> *Thanks in advance!*
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